Clothes pounder



March 16, 1937. L. CARPENTIERI CLOTHES POUNDER Filed Jan. 22, 1935 mm m it Patented Mar. 16, 1937 PATENT OFFICE CLOTHES POUNDER Louis (larpentieri, New York, N. Y., assignor of gft per cent to Louis Petrosino, New York,

Application January 22, 1935, Serial No. 2,874

2 Claims.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple, cheap and durable pounder for use in washing clothes and the like, and more particularly, to that class wherein a combined sucking 5 and agitating process is set up; being to suck steam, suds and hot water through the clothes for the purpose of more thoroughly cleansing the garments treated.

A further object of my invention is to provide a yielding, flexible condition for the parts, thus making it unnecessary to always hold the handle in a vertical position, which usually exists in washing pounders of this character.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical section showing my invention ready for use, the handle and body being partly broken away. Figure 2 is a bottom plan view showing the scalloping curves and the air-tight plug. Figure 3 is a detail section of the air-tight plug.

It may be briefly stated. that my invention consists of a hollow chamber or body which is peculiarly shaped, as follows: the upturned flange at the lower end having scalloping curves and being entirely open. Above this flange in the 5 chamber is a torus curve which contains vents for better agitating the contents of the receptacle. At the upper end of the chamber is attached an air-tight plug, an operating handle and means for setting up a flexible union between the chamber and the handle.

Referring in detail to the several elements, flgures will be used to designate same, the same figure being employed for the same part throughout the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the entire 45 5, and also around the outside of the metal plug 3, forming a flexible connection between the handle 5 and the chamber I.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan View of the entire pounder, assembled for use. The eight scalloping curves of the chamber I, are here shown in detail. The air-tight, metal plug 3, is here shown attached to the chamber I.

Figure 3 is a detail view of the air-tight metal plug 3.

It will be understood that while I have thus shown and described the preferred body of my invention, I do not wish to be limited to its mechanical details and may resort to such modifications and alterationsas come within the scope of the claims hereto appended. Also that I may use my device in conjunction with uses other than clothes-washing.

What I claim is: 1. A clothes pounder chamber closed on the top and open on the bottom comprising an integral metallic sheet forming a curved chamber, the'lower end of which is provided with a series of peripheral vertical indentations to serve as grasping fingers for the clothes to be pounded, said chamber below its middle region being formed with a peripheral protuberance, the lower part of which is curved inwardly and downwardly and is formed with a row of openings, the lower edge of said protuberance forming an inwardly projecting rib, the upper part of said protuberance being curved inwardly and upwardly.

2. As an article of manufacture, a clothes pounder chamber closed on the top and open on the bottom comprising an integral metallic sheet forming a curved and substantially conical chamber, the lower end of which is provided with a series of peripheral vertical indentations to serve as grasping fingers for the clothes to be pounded, said chamber below its middle region being formed with a peripheral indentation having a row of openings in the upper wall of said indentation, the inner limit of said indentation serving as an inwardly projecting rib for the chamber.

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